Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, travelled to Hawaii in June where she presented a lecture and did program assessment on the Bridge to Hope program, modeled after Hamilton's ACCESS Project, for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Adair was the founder of ACCESS at Hamilton College, a program dedicated to providing low-income, first-generation college-educated parents in central New York with all of the support necessary to thrive in an academic community.
Adair's lecture in Hawaii was in conjunction with the photo exhibit "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education." It includes museum quality, framed color photographs and narratives created by women and men who either are, or were, poor parents and students changing their lives through the pathway of higher education in the United States.
She gave the same talk in May at Eastern Oregon University and will present it again at Seattle University during the week of June 9.
Adair's lecture in Hawaii was in conjunction with the photo exhibit "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education." It includes museum quality, framed color photographs and narratives created by women and men who either are, or were, poor parents and students changing their lives through the pathway of higher education in the United States.
She gave the same talk in May at Eastern Oregon University and will present it again at Seattle University during the week of June 9.
